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Headword: *)/amfw
Adler number: alpha,1790
Translated headword: both
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[The dual form, both nominative and accusative, for] a)mfo/teroi and a)mfote/rous, and the oblique cases [are] a)mfoi=n.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)/mfw tw\ xei=re, [meaning] both hands in the dual.[2]
"Giving not with [sc. one] hand, but with both:" [a saying] in reference to those giving unenviously and abundantly to all.[3]
Greek Original:
*)/amfw: a)mfo/teroi kai\ a)mfote/rous, kai\ ai( pla/gioi a)mfoi=n. kai\ *)/amfw tw\ xei=re, a)mfote/ras ta\s xei=ras dui+kw=s. *ou) xeiri\ dwrou/menos, a)ll' a)mfoi=n: e)pi\ tw=n a)fqo/nws kai\ dayilw=s metadido/ntwn toi=s pa=sin.
Notes:
Cognate with Latin ambo.
[1] cf. alpha 1792 and alpha 1793.
[2] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.523, where this phrase occurs (though without the article).
[3] Again at alpha 1792 (and theta 78). (This 'saying', from Damascius, is not in the paroemiographers.)
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 August 2000@23:21:23.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added note; raised status.) on 29 August 2000@01:32:20.
Catharine Roth (Altered wording.) on 29 August 2000@01:38:13.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; restorative and other cosmetics) on 28 July 2002@07:19:57.
Catharine Roth (added betacode, other cosmetics) on 23 August 2008@22:24:59.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 22 February 2012@05:17:38.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 7 March 2012@01:55:39.
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